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How popular is the baby name Endora in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Endora and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Endora.

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Popularity of the Baby Name Endora

Number of Babies Named Endora

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Carol Lynley as Rapunzel, 1958Rapunzel from Disney’s Tangled failed to influence the U.S. baby name charts in 2010, but a televised depiction of Rapunzel from decades earlier boosted the baby name Rapunzel onto the charts for the first and only time in 1959:

The “Rapunzel” episode of Shirley Temple’s Storybook (1958-1961). The German folktale first aired in October of 1958 on NBC. It aired again in 1959 when ABC reran the entire first season of the series.

The role of Rapunzel was played by 16-year-old Carol Lynley. The witch was played by Agnes Moorehead, best remembered today as an entirely different witch: red-headed Endora from Bewitched. And Shirley Temple, who was in her early 30’s by this time, served as narrator.

…And how did the long-haired folktale character come to have the name “Rapunzel” in the first place?

It was a pregnancy craving, believe it or not.

The original story began with a pregnant woman who had a craving for rapunzel, which is a leafy green vegetable. Her husband started stealing rapunzel from a nearby garden that belonged to either a fairy (in the Grimm brothers’ original 1812 version of the story) or a sorceress (in their revised 1857 version). The husband got caught and was forced to make a deal: he could take all the rapunzel he wanted, but in exchange he had to give the baby to the fairy/sorceress. And he did. The baby girl was named “Rapunzel” and taken away.

Tabatha, a 25-year-old from Queensland, Australia, likes that her name is “not easy to forget.”

But she doesn’t care for the nickname Tabby Cat. Or the fact that “everyone automatically thinks of Bewitched” when they hear her name.

It isn’t surprising that so many people associate the name with Bewitched, as many baby girls were named Tabatha and Tabitha after the birth of TV baby Tabatha Stephens during the second season (which aired from 1965 to 1966).

In fact, that’s exactly how Tabatha herself came to be named:

My sister named me after the TV show Bewitched.

(Interesting random fact: Bewitched also put the name Endora on the map.)

Would Tabatha recommend that kids today be given her name?

It is a very old name but it may just be confusing to people these days. Bewitched isn’t really around much. I work in childcare & all the kids find my name hard to learn & weird.